17 posts tagged “interactive art”
This stunt is up & running in this year's FILE in Sao Paulo.
approach the mirror, loose your identity.
sure they've been around since smashed berries & fire but i'm a sucker for whimsy and oddness and this one has it in spades
update - oh look 3 days later WSJ has a video feature on him
and then i notice the echoes of steve mann
and then i think of sheldon brown (this one, not that one) mentioning his ennui with respect to much of my generation's tech art scene, how the work is all a regurgitation of what was already done (and forgotten) generations ago.
perhaps that's the point... to re-invent it?!?! was my first response, but instead i said something about how the very phenomenology of art/play lends more significance than any actual content anyway.
but yessir it does seem a tad sad.
everything exists only to be forgotten, and then blindly danced on top of.
last night, ended up holdin it down with Grafitti Research Labs in the middle of some random intersection in sao paulo, as they worked with local graffiti artists (such as FATO, who was doing a normal spray tag too ;) rather sublime. police drove by twice, didn't stop fato, perhaps the wierd crew with the lasers and 22,000 worth of gear were a sort of subterfuge. i can only imagine what the people driving by thought. extremely amusing.
FILE, last night before opening; little preview...
plant as musical instrument. i should think galvinic skin response, plant is conductor. regardless. really well done. i'll update w/ artist info later...
with luck, i'll get it working in time... mad week.
i'm calling the work 'face invaders'.
we'll see.... meanwhile here's the dope:
M5 + the86collective presents: ECHO*
*celebrating visionary talent transforming the boundaries in fields of new media
Reception: Friday, June 27 (8pm - midnight)
1101 West Fulton Market @ Aberdeen, Chicago
Cocktails sponsored by Rubi Rey Rum
artists:
> sean capone
> brian dressel
> matt hill
> alex horn
> brook jonquil
> christian matts
> psymbolic
> nick waraksa
> jesse wyatt
> ji hyun yoon
M5:
www.mfive.org
M5 is a nonprofit interdisciplinary arts collective which explores the
intersection of art, new media, performance, and architecture.
Exploring various curatorial and exhibition practices, M5 fosters
collaborative dialogue between artists engaged in a wide range of
innovative creative production. After hosting events and shows over ten
years, M5 has emerged as a leading Chicago cultural institution
implementing its mission by fostering initiatives of EXHIBITION,
EDUCATION, OPPORTUNITY, COMMUNITY, CULTURAL EXCHANGE, and COLLECTIVE.
M5 is under the direction of Peter Gogarty + Christophe Gauspohl.
86collective:
www.86collective.com
the86collective is a constantly reinvigorated gallery of 86 works,
assembled by organizations in Denver, Miami, and Chicago, created by
the most talented artists the medium has to offer. The collective aims
to expose new masterpieces and also to discover new masters wherever
they might be found. If you feel you might be one of these new masters,
you’re invited to submit your own work. If you’re an aficionado, you’re
encouraged to visit the gallery again and again, exclaiming “awesome”
at such times as you might deem appropriate.
some kids in boston
it's great to see social video games getting more popular
in order of discovery over the years:
1997 - sony's holo wall
1999 - toshio iwaii's composition on the table
2003 - [former chicago-based electronic musician] ben recht's & james patten's audiopad
2005 - jeff han's firt experiments
2006 - bjork tours with open source reactable
2007 - another open source ver ver here
2008 - even more literal dj version
know more ? leave in comments !
atari / cubase / opcode vision - all seem to have merged into ableton
live as the hands-down champ du jour of sequencing music in studio and
during live performance; meanwhile, everyone's
increasingly hot for multitouch...
it's been neat
to watch it happening, over the past decade... watch it accelerate... and
then wonder when it will hit commodity / consumer level, and be
so commonplace, the kids will find it boring.
audio scratch ipod touch app, anyone ?
even better, this timeline... far more comprehensive than above.
a.k.a. computing while tired.
it can occasionally surpass ordinary
conscious work.
Tonight, for instance, i tried something i would never
have tried while awake, as i know it wouldnt work.
Yet... It worked.
Somehow i
opened the same video device twice. Face tracking and optical flow in
different apps on same camera. Ghetto multithreading. Immediately
useful.
